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The Florists^ Review 



D8CBMBEB 4. 1919. 



CHRISTMAS STOCK 



CYCLAMEN - POINSETTIAS - CHRISTMAS PEPPERS - FERNS 



Give the ordering of your Christmap requirements prompt attention. You will find good stock is going to be scarce this 

 year. Our stocli of Cyclamen is the best and largest around Philadelphia. 



The Poinsettias are unusually line. Many of our customers say they are the best they have seen. The Christmas Pep- 

 pers are beautiful, filled with fruit and flowers. 



When possible we will be pleased to have you call and look our stock over before purchasing. 



CHRISTMAS PEPPERS 



Perdozen $6.00 Per 100 $60.00 



FERNS 



4-inch, very heavy @ $0.60 



6-inch, very heavy @ 1.00 



8- inch, very heavy @ $2.00 and 2.60 



Merion, Pa. 



CYCLAMEN 



4-inch pots @ $0.50 



6-inch pots @ $1.50 and 2.00 



7-inch pots @ 2.50and 3.00 



8- inch pots @ 4 00 and 5.00 



POINSETTIAS 



4-inch pots. @ $0.35 and $0.60 



6-inch Azalea pots, 3 plants and fem...@ 1.00 

 7-inch Azalea pots. 4 plants and fern.. .@ 2.00 



8-inch low pan, 6 plants and fern @ 2.00 



8-inch Azalea pots, 6 plants and fern.. 6 3.00 



HENRY I. FAUST, 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



when it is necessary, and to clear up 

 many points about tree and plant life 

 which have been mysterious to the lay- 

 man. We expect to accomplish this 

 through cooperation of our state agri- 

 cultural colleges, lectures, newspaper 

 and magazine articles and possibly mov- 

 ing pictures. 



"There is much preliminary work to 

 be done before we can make any defi- 

 nite announcements of our program, but 

 we hope to report progress shortly." 



REDUCING UST OF VARIETIES. 



Leading in the movement to reduce 

 the number of varieties grown by nurs- 

 erymen, Harrison's Nurseries, Berlin, 

 Md., are pruning the list in their cata- 

 logue, making extraordinary efforts to 

 weed out the varieties superfluous and 

 unprofitable to nurserymen in the gen- 

 eral run. In their special price list of 

 fruit and ornamental trees. Senator Or- 

 lando Harrison makes this statement: 



During the last few years my brother, George 

 A. HarrlBon, and my son, G. Hale Harrison, as 

 well as myself, have visited most of the fruit- 

 growing sections of the United States. The 

 purpose of these journeys was to secure first- 

 hand knowledge of the varletlps and of the larg- 

 est and most profitable orchards. 



At various times we have visited the peach 

 orchards of Maryland. Pennsylvania, Texas, Mis- 

 souri, New York and other large fruit-growing 

 sections. In all of these places we found that 

 four varieties stood first and foremost — Carman, 

 Hiley, Belle of Georgia and Elberta. Of course, 

 we found a few other varieties, but these seem 

 to be sorts with a local reputation, and in no 

 case did a grower have large plantings of these 

 without regard to the variety. 



Nor is the choice of apples much wider. In 

 West Virginia, Maryland, Maine, in the Atlantic 

 coast states and in the extreme west a limited 

 number of varieties furnish the great crops. In 



[Continued on page 120.] 



CLOSING OUT 

 == SALE — 



We have discontinued the Nursery busi- 

 ness and offer for sale at very low prices n 

 large stock of very choice sliade treos and 

 hedge plants of the following varieties: 



SUGAR MAPLE 

 SILVER MAPLE 

 NORWAY MAPLE 

 AMERICAN ELMS 

 ENGLISH WALNUTS 

 CAROLINA POPLARS 

 AMERICAN LINDKNS 

 ExtrsHne lot of CALIFORNIA PRIVET 



These trees are from 8 to 15 ft. high, 1 to 

 3 in. in diameter, nicely headed, with straight, 

 sturdy bodies. 



The PRIVET is from 2 ft. to 4 ft. high, 

 verv heavily branched. Six thousand trees, 

 two thousand PRIVET to select from. 



Write or phone your order now. 



Virtinia Nursery Compiny 



Purcellville, Va. 



Seasonable Plant Stock 



23^-inch pot plants, except noted. 



Asparagus Plumosus and Sprengeri, $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



Fern Dish Ferns, Pteris Mayii, Victoria Variegata, Cretica Alba, Wim- 

 settii, etc., $6.00 per 100; $50.00 per 1000 (very heavy). 



Thunbergia Erecta, splendid plants from 3-in. pots, $35.00 per 100. 



Bougainvillea, heavy 4-in. pot plants, $4.50 per doz.; $35.00 per 100. 



Dracaena Sanderiana, $20.00 per 100. 



Euonymus Japonica, silver edged, 3-in. pot plants, $15.00 per 100; 4-in. 

 pot plants, $30.00 per 100; 5-in., bushy, 15 to 18 inches high, $60.00 per 100. 



Lantanas, dwarf, two wonderful varieties in red, Jacob Schulz and 

 Michael Schmidt, $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



Kentia Forsteriana, decorating palms of good value, well rooted single 

 specimen plants, 42 in. high, $7.50 each; 48 in. high, $8.50 each; 54 in. high, 

 $10.00 each. 



Phoenix Canariensis, heavy plants, 48 in. high, $10.00 each. 



THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., PainesviUe, Ohio 



M«ptlOB 1b» B«Tiew whea yoa write. 



Delphinium Belladonna 



A very desirable forcing plant, both for 

 potting and growing on the benches. 



Strong, 3-year plants, 

 $15.00 per 100 



JACKSON & PERKINS COMPANY, Sl^ 



WARK 

 YORK 



Mention The ReTlew when you write. 



BOSTON FERNS 



Very fine plants. Order t>efore cold weather. 

 2'9-inch 6c 



3 -Inch lOo 



4 -Inch 2Bc 



« -inch SBctoBOc 



6 Inch 60cto75c 



A few hundred bench plant* from 3c to 30c. 

 Caah or latiafaetory reference from nnknown pertiM. 



W.W.COLES, KOKOHO, WD. 



Hardy Old-fashioned Plants 



Our Spacialty 



Specially grown for Florists. Nursery- 

 men and Landscape Architects. Prioes 

 on request. 



WILLIAM TOOLE & SON 



lartr HMt Mi Panf Fara: BAKABOO, WIS. 



